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IAMSTARZ  INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:

IAMSTARZ 0:07

My name is IAMSTARZ and I give consent for this interview. And images to be used.

Kieran Retief 0:17

Okay great. Okay, so the first question is about the magazine which is the and why and we want to find out what it means to artists. So, what does the term do music yourself mean to you as an artist?

Unknown 0:32

When I hear Do you music yourself. It suggests the journey that a musician takes to get to a place where they want to be. It also gives me the idea that it's something to do with your own talent and finding yourself within the music industry.

Kieran Retief 0:52

And what made you decide you wanted to start doing music?

Unknown 0:55

Well, I have a musical family. So I've always been surrounded by music, or at least performance. So music to me came very naturally from a very, very young age. I was taking piano lessons and then I started writing my own music from a from a child. So it's just been something that has come from me from my family.

Kieran Retief 1:20

And what does success mean to you personally? What is your end goal?

Unknown 1:24

I think success for me is being able to have a very good income doing something that I really enjoy. So my end goal would be to be making make the music that I love, whilst being able to live with that money that I make from now.

Kieran Retief 1:41

And what was the hardest thing about making the choice to become a musician?